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adjective

macabre adj.

Portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen. (Also spelled macaber)

Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid.

Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.

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Etymology of 'Macabre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Macabre" Quotes from Famous Books

... melon, scatters its globes of bitter gold. For it is in the nature of Orientals that their habitations should surround themselves with a girdle of corrupting things, gruesome and yet fascinating: a Browning might have grown enamoured of its macabre spell. ...

— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas

... story came out across the liqueur glasses and the early strawberries, Major Clowes laid his head back and roared with laughter. Lawrence was annoyed: he had not found it amusing and he felt that his cousin had a macabre and uncomfortable sense of humour. But Bernard, wiping the tears from his eyes, developed unabashed his idea of a good joke. "Hark to him! Now isn't that Lawrence all over? What! can't you run down for twenty-four hours ...

— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

Words linked to "Macabre" : sick, danse macabre, gruesome, grim, alarming, grisly